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2024 Conference Ep. 017 Greg Mitchell
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Hello and welcome back to the PHSA Podcast.
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My name is David Bigford.
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I'm the pastor here at SalmonArm.
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This is a very special podcast series where I'm going to be sharing with you messages
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from our most recent conference in Prescott, Arizona, the Beyond Limits Conference with
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a theme of to preach the gospel in the regions beyond from 2 Corinthians 10-16.
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I'm going to share all of the sermons from this conference series to include Greg Mitchell,
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our head pastor, Joe Campbell, Richard Ruby, Tom Payne, and many, many others during this
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series.
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So I'll be sharing these with you over the next couple weeks, and I hope you really enjoy
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these messages.
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If you'd like to see these messages in a video format, you can go to prescottpottershouse.com
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where all of these will be available for you to view in a video format.
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So without further ado, I'm going to go ahead and move on to the messages, and I hope you
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enjoy them.
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God bless.
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Life is an adventure.
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That's how you have to look at it.
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Turn in your Bibles to Deuteronomy 28.
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I am so grateful to all of you that have been here this week, your participation, your giving.
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Appreciate your patience and all that we just went through, but it's going to be worth it.
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We have more kingdom business to do tonight, so it's going to be worth it.
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Deuteronomy 28, we're going to read there.
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In 2023, NASA launched a space probe.
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They were aiming to reach what's called the Psyche asteroid belt.
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They're mapping the surface and collecting data of these asteroids, these floating objects
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in space.
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One of the reasons why is that some of these asteroids are mineral rich.
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They have huge economic value.
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There's one asteroid called the Davida.
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It is 220, 202 miles in diameter.
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That's 326 kilometers.
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It is considered the most valuable asteroid in the belt.
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It has a resource value.
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The resources, the ores, the metals inside it, they believe it is worth approximately
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27 quintillion US dollars.
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I won't even tell you how many zeros that is.
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27 quintillion is more than all the wealth that exists in the world today, and it is
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up there in the heavens, but it is untapped.
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The fact that it's in the heavens, it's not doing anyone any good.
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The scripture we're going to read, just one verse, God speaks of the treasures of the
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heavens.
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My aim in this message is to open your eyes spiritually so you can see the incredible
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untapped resources that are available to us.
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I want to preach about treasures in heaven.
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Deuteronomy 28, just one verse, verse 12.
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The Lord will open to you his good treasure, the heavens, to give you the rain to your
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land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand.
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You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow treasures in heaven.
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Let's begin.
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I want to talk about the treasure house.
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This text is preparing God's people for relationship with him and to do his will.
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So he gives them in chapter 28 the blessings of obedience in relationship with God.
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Deuteronomy 28, verse 2, the beginning of the chapter.
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All these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you because you obey the voice of
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the Lord your God.
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Blessing, an incredible Bible word, to grant favor on another, but it is actually talking
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about adding a supernatural dimension to something or to someone.
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Think about the feeding of the 5,000.
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In Jesus, he takes five loaves of bread and two fish.
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The Bible says he broke it, he blessed it.
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He added something supernatural to what was there and it became more than enough.
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That's what blessing is.
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It is adding a supernatural blessing.
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That dimension of blessing, it is built into having relationship with God.
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Genesis 12, 2 and 3.
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I'll bless you and make your name great.
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You shall be a blessing.
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I'll bless those who bless you.
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I'll curse those who curse you.
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And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
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In this text, God speaks to Abraham.
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He says when you're in relationship with me, there is financial blessing.
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Favor with people.
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They will view you favorably.
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People will want to help you.
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There is protection from attacks.
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Attacks, as Brother Stephen said, turn actually into our benefit.
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And blessing speaks about effectiveness in ministry and giving us the ability to then
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pass on blessing to other people.
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The dimension of blessing is the birthright of every believer.
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Galatians 3, 13 and 14.
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Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it's
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written cursed as everyone hangs on a tree, so that the blessing of Abraham might come
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upon the Gentiles, that's non-Jews in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of
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the Spirit through faith.
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That supernatural dimension should be manifest in the life of every believer.
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So now let's get to our text.
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Our text speaks of treasure, verse 12, the Lord will open to you His good treasure, the
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heavens.
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The word treasure is actually storehouse.
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The storehouse is the room, the rooms or the buildings where supplies were stored up.
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We see this in Nehemiah 12, 44, some were appointed over the rooms of the storehouse
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for the offerings.
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These were temple supplies that were laid aside waiting to be used for temple ministry.
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Joshua 6, 19 says, but all the silver and gold vessels of bronze and iron, they're consecrated
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to the Lord.
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They shall come into the treasury, same word, storehouse of the Lord.
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These were treasures that were laid aside so that they could be put to use at a later
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point in time for the purposes of God.
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So the idea of a storehouse or a treasury is that resources are stored up, they're waiting
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for you to draw upon them.
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Today we would view this as like having savings in the bank.
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Any of you, if you have saved money saved in the bank, what that means in crisis, you
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can withdraw from the bank, which is your storehouse, to meet a need.
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Does your vehicle need repairs or there's a problem?
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You withdraw what you need.
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Is there a health problem?
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You make a withdrawal to meet the need.
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That is what it is.
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In times of purpose, like we did in the offering tonight, you can withdraw in order to accomplish
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God's purposes.
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If you are the pastor of a church, this would be like having the ability to withdraw money
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to purchase a building, to rent a suitable building, to be able to take money so that
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you can plant churches.
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Treasure is a storehouse and treasure is the potential of every believer.
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Every believer, every pastor, every church can enter into this dimension of blessing
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called treasure.
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The key to treasure is that it must be stored up.
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So how do we store up treasure in heaven?
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The Bible says two main ways.
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Number one, we store up treasures through prayer.
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Prayer means we can ask for God's intervention in the earth.
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Matthew 6, 10, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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That is the right of every believer.
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You can ask your heavenly father, what is in heaven?
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All the power of heaven.
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I needed to come down where I live in my unsaved family, in my ministry, in my finances, my
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health.
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I need you to get involved.
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But you know the problem with prayer is that for many people, they get frustrated because
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the effect of prayer is not immediately seen.
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We ask, God says ask and He'll intervene and many times young converts, even older converts
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will come and they'll say, I'm asking but nothing's happening.
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Why?
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Something wrong with me?
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Is something wrong with God?
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Because the assumption is if I'm asking and nothing's happening, that means my prayer
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didn't do any good.
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But all listen to me, the power of those prayers are being stored up in heaven.
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How do I know this?
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Revelations 8, 3, an angel with a golden censer came and stood at the altar.
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He was given much incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon
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the golden altar that was before the throne.
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So now God is allowing us to see into heaven and He's saying that the prayers of the saints
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are being stored in heaven but then they were being poured out.
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Acts 10, 4, Cornelius, your prayers and your giving have come up for a memorial before
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God.
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He no doubt prayed day after day after day.
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He may have assumed like many people, nothing is happening but the angel said it's being
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stored up.
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It has been stored up and now is the day it is going to be poured out in your life.
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So we store up treasure in heaven first by prayer.
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Secondly, we store up treasures through giving.
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Matthew 19, 21, if you want to, Jesus said, if you want to be perfect, go sell what you
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have, give to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven.
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Come follow me.
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The same idea, storehouse in heaven.
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Now we often think about, yeah, that greedy guy got a hold of him and said, just give
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all your money away so you have nothing.
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Listen, if he had nothing, how is he going to eat?
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How is he going to survive?
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Because Jesus says, you are going to lay up treasure.
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Treasure is going to be a storehouse for in a time of need you can draw upon it, Matthew
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6, 20, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust destroys
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and thieves don't break in and steal.
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We often preach and think of that eternal reward, give now.
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It'll be waiting for you in heaven when you die.
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That is true but biblically that's not all that it means.
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It also means that when we give, we are storing up in this life for kingdom purposes and needs.
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We can withdraw treasure in heaven.
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Listen, for many believers here, you have been storing up treasure.
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You don't realize you have given.
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Many of you have walked away from your giving, assuming it's done and I'll see the benefit
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when I die.
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No, that is not true.
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You prayed and assumed nothing is happening.
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Listen, right now there are treasures waiting for you right now.
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Amen.
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This is what God wants you to understand.
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1804, Merriwether Lewis and William Clark, they were sent on an expedition where Thomas
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Jefferson negotiated with the French, purchased a massive amount of land basically from the
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middle of modern day America stretching all the way to the Pacific coast.
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And so this was called the Louisiana Purchase.
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It had to be explored so he sent these two men.
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They were given $2,500.
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That would be like being given today $600,000 to buy supplies.
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But more than that, President Jefferson gave Lewis a letter authorizing him to draw on
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any agency of the U.S. government anywhere in the world for anything he wanted for the
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expedition.
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He also authorized Lewis to call on citizens of any nation to furnish you with those supplies
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which your necessities may call for.
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He said this letter is a general credit for you with my own hand.
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He's pledging the entire U.S. government behind this letter.
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It was the most unlimited letter of credit ever issued by an American president.
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Think about that.
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He said, here with this piece of paper, anything you need, you can draw upon it.
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And our text says you can lay up treasures in heaven.
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Let's talk secondly about treasure requirements.
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Now in our text, it says this is not just automatic for every single person in the world.
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Treasure number one has a location.
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Verse 12, to give rain to your land.
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This is not saying rain will fall on any dirt anywhere in the world.
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It was the land of Canaan, the land that God had promised.
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It was the place where God wanted them to be.
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And he says, if you are in the place where I plan for you and I want you to be, then
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the rain will fall upon your land.
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You see, God's will has a location.
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You cannot serve God anywhere in the world that you choose.
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God is everywhere, but his will has a location.
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God has an opinion about where you should live in life.
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He has an opinion about where you should go to church.
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He has an opinion for every couple in the ministry where you should pastor.
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He has an opinion about what ministry you should be in, in the church or whether that
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is in pastoral ministry.
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Our text says God only promises to bless in the location that he chooses.
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Verse 12, to give the rain to your land.
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See, you can only expect supernatural help if you are where God wants you to be.
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First King 17, 9, our brother preached or just ministered from this verse, arise and
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go to their path which belonged to Sidon and dwell there.
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Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you.
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God is talking now about miracle provision.
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Here someone is going to view him with favor.
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God is going to do a supernatural miracle that this little bit of bread, little bit
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of flour and oil is not going to run out as long as the famine goes on, but God says,
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I will feed you there, not everywhere there.
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See, the problem with us is we so often view life as a personal preference.
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There are people like, you know, it's hot here.
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I feel like moving where it's cold.
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There are people that they're in the cold, they think I'm going to move where it's warm.
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I'm going to move to the ocean.
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I'm going to move where they're skiing.
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Right?
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And we think that God is like, oh, oh, oh, God's falling around with the blessing hose
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going, where are they going to be next week?
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That's not true.
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There are people in church that go, you know, I don't like this ministry.
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I'm out.
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There are people that, I don't like this church.
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I don't like that pastor.
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I'm out.
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Not this church, of course.
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There are people here, you're called to preach, you go, I don't want to preach.
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I want to make money.
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I want to do other things.
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There are pastors here, God's called you, go overseas.
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You go, I don't want to go overseas.
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But you think that the rain is still expected to fall.
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That is not true.
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Let me ask you something.
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You may be stopping the rain of God's treasure in your life, in your walk with God, in your
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ministry, in your church.
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Here's the question.
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Are you where you're supposed to be?
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That where may be a city, may be a church, may be a ministry.
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Are you where you're supposed to be?
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Second question, are you doing what you're supposed to be doing?
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Because that is the land that God will reign on only where he chooses.
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You know what?
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It may be that some of the frustration you are experiencing in life is because you are
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out of place.
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So the answer is be in the place where the rain can fall.
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For some of you that means get in the place.
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Others of you, that means stay in the place.
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You got a problem with that?
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I'm out.
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Stay in the place.
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For some of you, get back to the place.
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A blessing.
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Genesis 31, 13, I'm the God of Bethel where you anointed the pillar and made the vow to
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me.
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Now arise, get out of this land and return to the land of your family.
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One for you might be returning to God's will in surrendering.
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It might be a location, it might be a ministry because treasure has a location.
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Our text says a second thing, treasure has a timing.
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Verse 12, to give the rain to your land in its season.
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You see, God moves in seasons.
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Genesis 8, 22, while the earth remains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, winter and
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summer, day and night, it will never cease.
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So this gives us perspective.
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You say right now nothing's happening that you can see.
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But seasons means something is being prepared.
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The winter is coming to an end.
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You look, there is nothing but under the ground.
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Nothing is happening.
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That means you have to recognize seasons.
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Farmers work with the seasons.
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They're looking for signs of the seasons.
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Luke 19, 44, Jesus said of Jerusalem, because you didn't know or recognize the time of your
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visitation.
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Listen, if you have a relationship with God, God will prompt you.
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You need to listen for the voice of God.
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He will stir you.
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He will deal with you.
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He will speak to you.
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He tells us, deals with us to respond to ministry, perhaps to make a move, to pioneer, go overseas
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or change ministry.
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He deals with people.
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I'm confident five times this week God has dealt with people to give.
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The woman with the alabaster box, Jesus said she recognized the season of giving and she
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responded accordingly.
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So prayer is the first way you store up treasure.
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Giving stores up treasure.
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But I want to tell you, sometimes we can trigger the season.
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The Bible does record this truth.
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You can pray and sometimes it's not time and sometimes things are being prepared.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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But the Bible tells also of people that triggered a miracle dimension even out of time.
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The Syrophoenician woman, I need you to come heal my demon possessed daughter.
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And he talked about this food.
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You don't give food to the puppies, to the dogs.
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He was talking about non-Jews.
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He says it's not time.
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That's basically what she says.
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That she pressed in and triggered a miracle for her daughter.
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Elijah prayed for rain and nothing happened, but he pressed in until he saw a cloud the
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size of a man's hand.
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Pastor Fred Craddock tells a great story.
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He was a pastor.
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Said he was visiting someone in the hospital and he saw a woman banging on the chapel door
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and she was shouting, let me in, let me in.
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And he walked up to the woman and he asked what's the matter and she looked at him.
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He said she looked like a crazy woman.
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She said my husband, he's had a heart attack and he's going to die.
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Then he said, well, I'm a pastor.
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Would you like me to pray?
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And she said, yes.
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And so he began to pray one of those nice pastoral prayers.
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Oh God in heaven.
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I pray and he said, she interrupted me.
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She took over.
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She said, Lord, this is not the time to take my husband.
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He's not ready.
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He never prays or goes to church.
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He's not ready.
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Don't take him now.
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And what about me?
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She said, what am I going to do God?
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I don't have any skills.
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I can't find any work.
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He said she was really talking to God.
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She said, what about the kids?
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They don't listen to me now when he's around.
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If he's gone, they're going to be wild.
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She said, this is not the time to take my husband.
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He said, he kind of just watched that lady and walked away.
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The next morning he came back and there was that same woman.
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She looked much more calm, walked up and she smiled.
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And she said, my husband, he's much better.
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And she said, I guess the Lord heard one of us.
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And he said, he heard you.
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He heard you.
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He said, that woman was desperate.
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I love how he described it.
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He said, she had God by the lapels with both hands.
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It was crying God's face.
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She triggered something.
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Sometimes you can trigger a dimension in your life.
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Let's talk finally about treasure surplus.
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I declare to you on this final night of conference, God's will for your life and your ministry
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is abundant supply.
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God's will is never that you have only just enough for yourself.
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There are people here you live paycheck to paycheck.
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Your whole life you are waiting for payday because you are up to here.
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You are barely, that is not God's will for your life.
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There are churches here.
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There are pastors here.
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You pastor a church.
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That church has been there for years and your church has absolutely no savings.
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That is not God's will.
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You can't afford to plant churches, some of you.
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You can't afford to purchase buildings if one came available.
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That is not God's will.
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Our text says God's will for our lives is blessing that has abundant supply so you can
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be a conduit of blessing.
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Verse 12, you shall lend to many nations but you shall not borrow.
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This is not a banking issue.
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He's not saying God's will for your life is to become a bank.
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It's a blessing issue.
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Genesis 12 to I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing.
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Listen, this is not just money.
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It's everything.
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God wants you to have abundant fruitfulness in your church.
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God wants you to have more, not just Lord give us a convert.
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He wants you to have abundant fruitfulness so you can send impact teams and help other
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churches and other, in other places.
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He wants your church to have abundant ministries so that you can bless other churches and people
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in other places.
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Our God has abundant resources.
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Can you say amen?
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There are abundant treasures in heaven.
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Think about when they're catching the fish.
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They caught so many, the nets were breaking, so many fish that the boats were sinking.
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Feeding the crowds, 5,000 men plus women plus children.
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After they all ate as much as they wanted, there were 12 baskets of food left over because
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God has abundant resources.
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And because God is abundant, He is willing to share His abundance with us.
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Matthew 13, 12, whoever has to Him more will be given and He will have abundance.
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Abundance is God's will.
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Philippians 4, 19, I quoted last night, my God shall supply all your need according to
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His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
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His riches in glory is talking about treasures in heaven.
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But I love that the scripture says it is according to His riches or in line with or in measure.
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Think about Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla and X, his net worth in 2024, he is worth
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$235 billion.
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2023, it was a slow year.
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He only made $97 billion last year.
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I want you to try to grasp how much money this man had.
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Let's just take the 9, never mind the 235, $97 billion he made.
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Elon Musk, every single day last year he made $265,753,424 every single day.
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Elon Musk, we've been having church now a little over an hour.
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Elon Musk has, he just made $12 million every single hour.
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Elon Musk makes $184,550 every minute.
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He makes $3,836 per second.
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That's the wealth that is staggering.
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So if you were to go to Elon and say, Elon, $10,000, could you give me $10,000 to you?
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That might be astronomical.
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In fact, if you were to ask Elon for a million, so you can't even grasp how many zeros that
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is, a million, that would not be according to his wealth.
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Listen, I'm trying to get you to understand our God is abundant.
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Elon Musk could supply so much more.
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If you understand God's abundance, he could do so much more in fruitfulness.
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He could do so much more financially than you currently are experiencing in your life.
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See what God wants is for us to enlarge our faith.
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Our confidence needs to be in what God is willing to do and what he wants to do.
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Ephesians 3 20, now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we
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ask or think according to the power that works in us.
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That verse says God can do more.
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He can do more than you've ever asked for, even thought of asking for before Matthew
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6 20, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither mob nor rust destroys
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and thieves don't break it and steal.
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The main point of Matthew 6 20 is of course making sure our hearts are aligned with God
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concerning money instead of greed.
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Yes, that is true, but when you put Matthew 6 20 treasure with Deuteronomy 28 12, treasures,
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which you realize both words mean storehouse.
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This is not just talking about in the future when you die.
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The treasure of heaven is meant to make a difference in your life right now.
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It is faith that enables us to enter into the storehouse for current kingdom needs.
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Let me ask how many pastors here in your church, you desperately need a building, either a
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bigger building to rent or you need a building to buy right now.
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And okay, and how many of you you have thought, but you lifted your hand, but you went, but
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it's so expensive.
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That's how we think, isn't it?
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There's treasure in heaven, abundant resources.
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I am not preaching a prosperity doctrine.
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I could never be a prosperity.
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Look at my hair.
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I, I, it wouldn't work.
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I don't have the hair.
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I don't have the teeth.
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I can't.
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I, I, I, this is not prosperity.
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I'm not Oprah Winfrey, a car for you and a car for you.
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But we need our loved ones saved.
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Is that right?
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We need treasure in heaven to save our families.
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We need converts.
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We need disciples.
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We need buildings to facilitate God's will.
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Verse 12, rain, rain causes the seed to grow.
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Listen, you have outreach and outreach and outreach.
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There is past seed.
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You have witnessed to your family or your friends again and again.
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That seed has been laying there.
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You've walked away thinking it does no good.
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God said, I want to rain upon the seed to produce fruit.
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We need a multiplication of ministries in order to be a blessing.
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We need a mighty outpouring of resources to accomplish God's will in the earth.
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Final thought, the key to releasing treasures in heaven is obedience.
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Deuteronomy 28 is a chapter contrasting obedience and disobedience.
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God says if you will obey, he will open his good treasure in heaven.
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Obedience is a posture of life.
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God, we belong to you.
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I live for you and I live for your will.
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We don't attend church occasionally because we need something.
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The posture of our life, we should wake up in the morning saying, God, I want to do your
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will.
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This means that God can speak to us whatever, whenever, whether that's going, staying,
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witnessing, getting involved, giving, praying, praying for people, sending, whatever it might
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be.
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Genesis 22, 16 through 18, he said, by myself I've sworn, says the Lord, because you've
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done this, not withheld your son, your only son, in blessing I will bless you multiplying.
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I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven, as the sand which is on the
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seashore, and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies in your seat.
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All the nations of the earth shall be blessed because you have obeyed my voice.
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I close with this story.
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The man that you saw pray tonight, Pastor Rungy Pohl, he pastors in Napier, New Zealand.
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Last year I think it was, I was in New Zealand preaching in the conference.
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He picked me up, we're riding in the car, and Pastor Rungy asked me, he said, we need
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a building, our building is way too small, but I also want to go full time as a pastor.
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So he said, Pastor Greg, which one should be a greater priority that I should go for
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first?
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Being a full time pastor or for a building?
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And I told Rungy, I said, surely if God created the heavens and the earth, surely God could
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do both.
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Do you think God's in heaven?
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Like, oh man, I don't know, that's just, I said, why don't you ask God for both?
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He went to a conference sometime after that, was challenged in the offering, he and his
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wife, they decided to give, God spoke to them and they were challenged not only to give
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in the offering, but said they had a spare vehicle at home, we're going to sell that
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and we're going to give it as well.
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And when he decided to give, he and his wife said they're going to give, he prayed and
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he said, God, we need a building and we want to go full time.
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That was what they agreed.
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Six weeks later, he saw a building that had been damaged, thought I need to ask about
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that building, called the landlord, the landlord said, I'm at the building right now, someone's
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come in and vandalized it, I'm cleaning up the damage.
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Rungy went to the building and he asked this man, he said, would you like some help cleaning
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up?
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And he said, yes.
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He quickly rung around numbers of men from his church, he said, hurry up, right, get
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to this building right now, we're going to clean up.
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I'm going to tell you, Rungy has some radical converts, gang member, tatted out, absolutely.
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And so this nice white man who's working away, these gangsters descend and they start working
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and they start telling their testimony of what Jesus had done for them.
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And man, when they finished cleaning the building, Rungy told him, he said, you know, we really
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need a building for our ministry.
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And the man said, leave it with me.
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Two days later, he called Rungy and he said, meet me at the building.
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When he came to the, met the man at the building, this man handed him the keys and he said,
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I spoke to the trust and they agree, you can have the building for free as long as you
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like.
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Put the picture up on the board here.
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This is the building.
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This is a building 6,000 square feet plus two basketball courts.
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He's going to have ex gangsters who are very fit now.
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And it'll be good.
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Next picture.
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Look at the inside.
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They needed to fix this up.
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Now listen, not only did they give him the building for free, it needed to be fixed up.
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You saw the outside of this building needed some work.
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And so the church, Pastor Rungy and the church, they put some money in, the trust gave them
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$15,000 to fix up the building that they were giving them for free.
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Praise God.
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And because they now don't have to pay rent, Pastor Rungy was immediately able to go full
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time.
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And not only do they have a building, he's able to go full time because of God's blessing
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financially they were able to launch their first church out into the ministry.
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Thank God.
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I am telling you there is treasure in heaven.
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Some of you have been laying it up for years thinking it's done.
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I'll never see it till I die.
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That is not true.
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And our God, the God of abundant, what is it that you need?
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Is it fruitfulness?
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Is it salvation of loved ones?
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Is it disciples?
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Is it buildings?
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Is it finances?
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I declare to you tonight there is treasures in heaven.
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Let's bow our heads.
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Close our eyes all across this place.
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Thank God.
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With our heads bowed, I'm asking right now, we're going to move on very quickly to some
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very exciting announcements in just a moment.
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But right now, before we do anything else, there are people that are here.
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You are not right with God.
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The greatest need in your life is not money.
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You need to fix your sin problem.
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If you were to go into eternity tonight, it would not be good for you because you're living
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a sinful life breaking God's commands.
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But I'm telling you, Jesus is the answer.
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You can be saved and our God will forgive you.
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Come into your heart and do a miracle from the inside out.
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How many people here tonight, you are not right with God and you want to get right.
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You want to pray and turn from your sin.
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Lift up your hand so I can see it.
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How many here?
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Hold it up.
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I need Jesus.
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I see that hand.
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I want to get right with God.
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Quickly, lift up your hand.
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Do it right now.
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Don't wait.
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We're going to move on.
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This is your chance.
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Some of you are backslidden.
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I talked about being away, not being where you should be.
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Some of you walked away from God.
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You can get back to God tonight.
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How many backsliders?
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Lift up your hand.
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I want to get right with God.
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Every one of you that lifted your hand, stand up to your feet and stay standing right where
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you're at right now.
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Stand up, stand up.
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I want to get right with God.
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Numbers of people over there, over there, over there.
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You want to get right with God.
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I want you to say this at your seat right now.
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Say this out loud.
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Say, Father God, I believe in Jesus Christ that He died on the cross for my sin.
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And I admit I am a sinner.
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I ask you to forgive me.
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Come into my heart.
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Give me the power to live a new life.
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And I choose to turn away from my sin from this day in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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God, every person that just prayed that prayer, I'm asking that you touch them, Lord God.
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Thank you for salvation and the power of the Holy Ghost.
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Amen.
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God bless you.
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You can be seated.
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